Further Reading:

James Gibson developed the ecological approach to perception and mostly studied it in relation to vision. More recently Eric Clarke and others have applied the approach to the study of music and sound.

Clarke, E.F., 1999. Subject Position and the Specification of Invariants in Music by Frank Zappa and P J Harvey. Music Analysis, 18(3), pp.347–374.

Clarke, E.F., 2005. Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning, Oxford University Press, USA.